Barbara Trader Faires (born 1943) is an American mathematician who served as professor, department chair, and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Westminster College in Pennsylvania and served for 8 years as Secretary[1] of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).[2] She received the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics from the MAA in 2022.[3] She is now retired and living in Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania.

Faires earned her undergraduate degree at East Carolina University, double-majoring in mathematics and business.[2] She earned her doctorate at Kent State University in 1974; her dissertation title was "On Grothendieck Spaces and Vector Measures" and completed under the supervision of Joseph Diestel.[4] Faires extended her studies into computer science during a sabbatical leave at Carnegie Mellon University where she also had a visiting position. Another visiting position took her to Westminster College in Oxford, UK.[2]

She was married to mathematician J. Douglas Faires (1941-2012)[5] who taught at nearby Youngstown University in Youngstown, Ohio. Together they authored several calculus textbooks.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ "Francis Su on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  2. ^ a b c "Barbara Faires - MAA Secretary | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
  3. ^ "Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for 2022 to Barbara Faires for Distinguished Service to Mathematics". American Mathematical Monthly. 129 (7): 603–607. 2022.
  4. ^ Barbara Trader Faires at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Vindicator, The. "J. DOUGLAS FAIRES". vindy.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-20. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
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